online assignment

1. COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION
ARKKANNOOR, AYOOR, KOLLAM
ONLINE ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE IN
PROMOTING NATIONAL INTEGRATION AND
INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING.
NAME : ASHARANI. R
SUBJECT: SOCIAL SCIENCE
REG.No : 13360001

2. INTRODUCTION
The term nationalism was coined by Johann Gottfried Herder (Nationalisms)
during the late 1770’s. Precisely where and when nationalism emerged is difficult to
determine, but its development is closely related to that of the modern state and the
push for popular sovereignty that surfaced with the French Revolution and the
American Revolution in the late 18th century.
Since that time, nationalism has become one of the most significant political
and social forces in history, perhaps most notably as a major influence or postulate of
World War I and especially World War II.
Benedict Anderson defined as nation as “an imagined political community and
imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign”. An imagined community is
different from an actual community because it is not (and cannot be) based on every
day face to face interaction between its members.
DEFINITION
“NATIONAL INTEGRATION” in the words of Dorothy Thomson, “is a feeling that
binds the citizens of a country”. For Preston, ”the job is to inculcate knowledge of our
country”, pride in it, and respect for the best in our national, environment, aspiration
and traditions, and a wish to improve our country”. According to Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

3. “National Integration cannot be built by brick and mortar, it cannot be built by chisel
and hammer. It has to grow silently in the minds and hearts of men.”
NATIONAL AND EMOTIONAL INTEGRATION AND INTERNATIONAL
UNDERSTANDING
To achieve emotional and national Integration instead, members hold in their
minds a mental image of their affinity; for example, the nation hood felt with other
members of your nation when your ‘imagined community’ participate in a larger
event such as the Olympics, cricket. The media also create imagined community
through targeting a mass audience or generalizing and addressing citizen as a public.
Common school system should be adopted social and national service should be
made as integral part of education Indian languages should be developed Hindi
should be enrichment opportunities for community living should be provided. This
will involve a radical reconstruction of education is essential for economic and
cultural development of the country, for national integration. A transformation of the
system to relate it more closely to life of the people, a continuous effort to raise the
quality of education at all stages, an emphasis on the development of the science and
technology, and the cultivation of moral and social values
The educational system must produce young men and women of character and
ability committed to national service and development. Only then will education be
able to play its vital role in promoting national on progress, creating a sense of
common citizenship and culture, and strengthening the national integration. This is

4. necessary if the country is to attain its rightful place in the committee of nations in
conformity with its great cultural heritage and its unique potentialities.
To promote social cohesion and national integration the common school
system as recommended by the education commission should be adopted efforts
should be made to improve the standard of education in general schools. All special
schools like public schools should be required to admit students on the basis of merit
and also to provide a prescribed proportion of free studentships to prevent
segregation of social classes.
Education for international understanding – the following objectives should be
regarded as major guiding principles of educational policy; an international dimension
and a global perspectives in education at all levels and in all its forms; understanding
and respect for all peoples, their cultures, civilizations, values and ways of life,
including domestic ethnics cultures of cultures of other nations.
Awareness of the increasing global interdependence between people and
nations, abilities to communicate with others, awareness not only of the rights but
also of the duties incumbent upon individuals, social groups and nations towards each
other, understanding of the necessity of international solidarity and cooperation,
readiness on the part of the individual to participate in solving the problems of hos
community, his country and world at large.
Combining learning, training information and action, international education
should further the appropriate intellectual and emotional development of the
individual. It should develop a sense of social responsibility and of solidarity with less
privileged groups of should lead to observance of the principles of equality in
everyday conduct. It should also help to develop qualities, aptitudes and abilities

5. which enable the individual to acquire a critical understanding of problems at the
national and international level. To understand and explain facts, opinion and ideas,
to work in a group, to accept and participate in free discussion to observe the
elementary rules of procedure applicable to any discussion, and to base value
judgments and decision on a national analysis of relevant facts and factors.
Education should stress the inadmissibility of recourse to all for purposes of
expansion, aggression and domination, or to the use of forces and violence for
purpose of repression, and should bring every person to understand and assume his
or her responsibility for the maintenance of peace. It should contribute to
international understanding of world peace and to the activities in the struggle
against colonialism and neo-colonialism all their forms and manifestations, and
against all forms and varieties of racialism, fascism and apartheid as well as other
ideologies which breed national and racial hatred.
State should take appropriate steps to strengthen and develop in the processes
of learning and training, attitudes and behaviors based on recognition of the equality
and necessary interdependence of nations and peoples. State should take steps to
ensure that the principles of the universal declaration of human rights and of the
international convention on the elimination of all forms of Racial discrimination
become an integral part of the developing personality of each child, adolescent,
young person or adult by applying these principles in the daily conduct of education
at each level and in all its forms, thus enabling each individual to contribute
personally to the regeneration and extension of education in the direction indicated.
States should urge educators in collaboration with pupils, parents, the organization
concerned and the community, to use methods which appeal to the creative

6. imagination or children and adolescence and to their social activities and there to
prepare them to exercise their rights and freedoms while recognizing and respecting
the rights of others and to perform their social duties states should promote, at every
stage of education, an active civic training in which will enable every person to gain a
knowledge of the method of operation and the work of public instructions. Whether
local, national or international, to become acquainted with tile procedures for solving
fundamental problems, and to participate in the cultural life of the community and in
public affairs, where ever possible, this participation should increasingly link
education and action to solve problems at the local, national and international levels.
CONCLUSION
There cannot be national integration without understanding the character of a
nation and there cannot be Communal harmony unless we intrinsically believe in the
validity of different beliefs and approaches. When the factors are taken into
consideration it can be seeing that national integration is a complex problem and
political integration is only one part of it. It is beyond doubt that the threats of
disintegration are starting us in the face. If we keep on remaining disunited in the
name of religion, community and language, the country will be in trouble. If we do not
sink petty depended our freedom is in peril. Divisions on the basis of language or
community will have serious repercussions. In short, there is urgent need of rethink
about or basic political and cultural concepts, reinterpret them, and be bold to
emphasis them through education system, political behavior and social environment.
At the same time, socio-economic and cultural differences as to be avoided also.

7. Caste discrimination should be eradicated. We must realize that we have the strong
bronze of same heritage and must not let ourselves fall apart and disintegrate. We
must show to the world that a country with are old a tradition are ours can holds back
person difference for the fake of higher interest of the country. Let us echo what
Pundit Nehru said “there is no division, north and south, East and West of India. There
is only one India of which all we are inheritors it belongs to all of us.”
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